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The Week In Games: Pumping Iron
Rise of Iron, the final expansion for the game everyone wishes people would stop talking about, and everyone else wishes they could stop playing, is almost upon us. My fingers are getting twitchy just thinking about it. But of course the fall is almost here as well, which means that for everyone who never wants…
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Ten Years Later, Okami Is Still Great
One day, my 8th grade art teacher decided to try to teach his class sumi-e, the Japanese art of Ink wash painting. It’s a minimalist style with a long history and subtle philosophy behind it, not exactly the best thing to show a bunch of distracted adolescent kids. He told us to be very conscious…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Last Man Standing In Counter-Strike Somehow Wins The Game
Virtus.pro went on to win the entire tournament, but before they could do that, Filip “NEO” Kubski had to help get his team through the semi-finals against Team Dignitas. Despite his age, the 29 year old Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro has really come into his own these last few years, helping VP take first place…
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UncategorizedDiaries of A Spaceport Janitor Makes Cleaning Up Trash Beautiful
Diaries of A Spaceport Janitor came out last Friday, so you can now relish the futility of late space-capitalism in all of its bright, low-poly glory. The object of the game is to go around a space port collecting other aliens’ garbage, with aim of eventually getting out of dodge and creating a new life…
By Ethan Gach - Esports
Crowd Shouts, Throws Things At Counter-Strike Tournament
Today, Virtus.pro swept a two game series against Cloud9 to win the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals at the DreamHack Open in Bucharest. The all-Polish team appeared all but unstoppable, defeating the Americans 16-9 on both the first map, Train, and the second, Cobblestone. However, during the finals, some people in the crowd began holding up…
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UncategorizedAnother Final Fantasy XV Tie-In Game Is Coming To Mobile
Square Enix announced a new mobile game called King’s Knight: Wrath of the Dark Dragon at Tokyo Game Show 2016. It’ll be part of the Final Fantasy XV Universe, and is actually one of the games played by the characters in that world similar to Justice Monsters Five, that “mobile pinball thing” that came out…
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Deaf Destiny Player Petitions Bungie For Captioning
Tigersharkdude loves Destiny. He’s also deaf. As a result, he asked the “DestinyTheGame” subreddit to help him petition Bungie to make the game’s subtitle options more robust. Yesterday, he wrote: “I am asking if you all could help me start a petition to ask Bungie to caption the random NPC dialogue (think engram remarks from…
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Study Confirms People Love To Play Pokémon Go While Driving
People do all kinds of absurd stuff while driving, including but not limited to: eating, texting, reading books and apparently even playing the guitar. Ever since Pokémon Go came out, people have also been trying to catch Pidgeys and Zubats while driving, because you can never have enough Pidgeys and Zubats. They’ve crashed into schools,…
By Ethan Gach - Culture
Sunday Comics: Don’t Look Now
Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published September 15. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published September 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and…
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UncategorizedOverwatch Player Uses Actual Turntable To Control Lucio
Video games have a long and sordid history of using various objects as controllers: guns, peripherals shaped like penises, and hell, even fruit. So it’s only natural that some of the weirder ones be put to more sensible use. That’s what YouTuber Whybeare did a couple weeks ago when he tried to play Overwatch’s Lucio…
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EsportsStruggling Halo Team Replaces Players With Last Year’s Champions
Imagine it’s the end of the month. The new NBA season is about to start just days later, but right before that, a majority of the Los Angeles Lakers’ owners decided to cut their losses with the team and sign a new one. With a once proud legacy firmly in the rear-view mirror, they’d had…
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Halo 5 Forge Maps Get Some Polish With New Update
According to 343 Industries, Halo 5‘s Big Team Battle (BTB) community refresh is now up and running The update is a collaboration with Halo 5‘s community to improve a number of different multiplayer maps made in Forge, the game’s level editor. Those of you who have been around since the early aughts will remember that…
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UncategorizedGorgeous New GTA V Mod Is The Work of One Person
Grand Theft Auto V, already one of the prettiest, most immersive sandbox games to-date, now has a mod that turns everything up to 11. The GTA 5 Redux mod not only improves things like lighting and contrast, but also little, slightly more morose details like how NPCs act as they’re falling to the ground after…
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FIFA YouTuber Prosecuted Under New Gambling Law
NepentheZ is a popular YouTuber known for his FIFA videos featuring things like “#Top20 Fastest Players in #FIFA #17″ and “FUTGALAXY – FIFA BETS, FIFA PACKS & FIFA 16 COINS!” where he does breakdowns of player abilities, stat comparisons, and also promotes gambling sites. Now, he could become well known as being one of the…
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